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this thought experiment suggests that we don’t cheat and steal as much as we would if we were perfectly rational and acted only in our own self-interest.
Dan Ariely • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves
Behavioral economics is demonstrating that humans don’t always act in self-interested ways, and that transactions themselves have an emotional component.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
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The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies is a fantastic book, which argues that people create these models because if you can reduce decision-making to an algorithm, or a formula, or a process, or a procedure, you avoid the risk of blame. Computer says no, effectively.
Instinctively, people love to codify things, and make them numerical, and turn ... See more
Instinctively, people love to codify things, and make them numerical, and turn ... See more